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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.

Melinda Gates

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide
I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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Connection Deep Generosity Human Humanity Inspirational Life Meaning Purpose Result
We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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Education Home Reading Woman
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman
That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman
Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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All lives have an equal value.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.

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